New America in the News: 2013

"It's unconscionable," said Amy Laitinen, deputy director for higher education at the New America Foundation, a Washington think tank. "This is one of the biggest investments students are ever going to make, and they have little to no information about ...

"A lot of (colleges) go for the same students from the rich suburban schools," said Stephen Burd, the foundation's education policy analyst who studied the data. The U.S. News rankings of colleges and universities have become a popular gauge of the ...

The White House proposes that the government forgive billions of dollars in student debt over the next decade, a plan that cheers student advocates, but critics say it would expand a program that already encourages students to borrow too much and stick taxpayers with the bill.

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When asked what regulations should be put in place, Konstantin Kakaes, Bernard Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation, warned against a “one size fits all” approach. A5: Regulation should make distinctions between drones of different sizes and ...

Anne-Marie Slaughter, a liberal interventionist who served in a top policy post in Obama's State Department, evoked the memory of Rwanda in appealing in a Washington Post op-ed for Obama to take action. “…(T)he White House must recognize that the ...

In their drafting of the legislation, the senators “found a number of sweet spots” on contentious issues that foiled past efforts to revise immigration laws, said Tamar Jacoby, president of ImmigrationWorks USA, an organization of state-based business ...

“I don't think it's an accident that it's occurring, and it makes sort of sense from an institution's point of view — they want to be the best they can be,” said Stephen Burd, author of the report and a senior policy analyst for the foundation, which ...

Rosa Brooks, professor of law at Georgetown University in Washington, points out that US presidents, and not just Mr Obama, have a long history of making empty threats - over North Korea, Iran and now Syria. "It's not at all clear how US interests are ...

“Portability is, really, the foundation of all labor rights,” said Tamar Jacoby, president and CEO of a pro-business group called ImmigrationWorks USA. “If you want to ask for better wages or better conditions or better anything, your leverage comes ...